{"id":433017,"date":"2026-09-11T17:34:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/433017\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T17:34:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:34:23","slug":"at-dallas-9-11-climb-firefighters-son-honors-his-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/433017\/","title":{"rendered":"At Dallas 9\/11 climb, firefighter&#8217;s son honors his dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At Dallas 9\/11 Memorial Stair Climb, Jack McNamara honored his father by wearing an old FDNY turnout coat. McNamara traveled from New York to Dallas for the 15th annual climb at Comerica Bank Tower on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026. His father, John F. McNamara, survived the Sept. 11 attacks and later worked about 500 hours at Ground Zero. He later developed stage 4 colon cancer and died in 2009 at age 44. Jack carried his father&#8217;s coat up the equivalent of the World Trade Center&#8217;s 110 floors. His connection to the event began through McKinney firefighter Jonathan Duncan, who has climbed almost every year since it started. Duncan said he climbs for Frank J. Bonomo, an FDNY firefighter with Engine 230 who was killed on Sept. 11. Jack now visits Texas with Duncan&#8217;s family and says Dallas and McKinney are welcoming. He wants people to remember not only 343 FDNY members who died that day, but the more than 600 who later died from health complications. By the end of the climb, Jack said his father&#8217;s name and finished wearing the coat that now fits him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Dallas 9\/11 Memorial Stair Climb, Jack McNamara honored his father by wearing an old FDNY turnout coat.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[150446,102,104,103,150445,150443,150444,150442],"class_list":["post-433017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-comerica-bank-tower","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-fdny","tag-jack-mcnamara","tag-john-f-mcnamara","tag-jonathan-duncan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}